Naughty Dog's Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet reportedly still years away as it skips The Game Awards

Naughty Dog's sci-fi adventure title Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet will reportedly not appear at The Game Awards next month and is not expected to launch in 2026.

The details:

• As reported by Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb, the PS5 exclusive will not make an appearance at The Game Awards next month despite being revealed at last year's ceremony in December 2024.

• Grubb also shut down rumors that the game could arrive in 2026, which was corroborated by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier. The journalists have claimed that 2027 is the earliest that we could see the game’s launch. This means that should Naughty Dog skip a 2026 release, the developer may have gone an entire console generation without an original game, only releasing remakes and remasters of The Last of Us and its sequel.
• Not much is known about Intergalactic so far, but studio head Neil Druckmann has revealed that it builds on the gameplay of The Last of Us similarly to how that franchise built upon its previous major franchise, Uncharted. “You could look at our previous titles and see the evolution of going from ‘Uncharted,’ where we’re really cutting our teeth on a realistic character-action game, a third-person shooter, combined with emotional storytelling,” he explained in an interview.